NNSquad - Network Neutrality Squad
[ NNSquad ] Re: Washington Post: "Obama administration joins critics of U.S. nonprofit group that oversees Internet"
> Washington Post: "Obama administration joins critics of U.S. nonprofit group that
> oversees Internet"
>
> http://j.mp/gc2wIH (Washington Post)
>
This article is very unfortunate and limited in its sophistication.
Nowhere is it said that ICANN is multi-stakeholder.
Nowhere does it mention that ICANN is bottom-up.
Kind regards,
Olivier Crépin-Leblond
ALAC Chair
http://www.atlarge.icann.org/
[ Multi-stakeholder? Sure, as long as we realize that most of
those stakes are held by those factions of the domain-industrial
complex who are "staking out" their "gold rush" dreams of riches
on the backs of the Internet community at large (which has no
effective input on these "processes," but still has to pay
through the nose to enrich the resulting Domain Masters, and
must deal with the resulting confusion). Personally, I'd like
to have a stake in this myself -- as in a nice sharpened wooden
stake, that I could drive through the heart of this vampiric
gTLD process.
Of course, using the term "process" for anything involving ICANN
these days is a hilarious misnomer. ICANN "processes" at this
stage are much more akin to a twisted version of the Heisenberg
Uncertainty Principle. Knowing what ICANN is actually doing at
any given time -- or understanding what they might do next (even
in total contradiction to their previous recent actions) is not
only difficult, it's impossible.
And as for ICANN being a "bottom-up" organization ... In terms
of real impacts, the concept of "bottom-up" being applied to
ICANN is a joke. However, we could more reasonably apply the
term "Bottoms-Up" -- as in the boozy parties sure to break out
among the newly landed "gTLD gentry" -- who will be vigorously
genuflecting at the altar of ICANN in thanks for their new
wealth at the receiving end of the gTLD protection racket
revenue stream.
-- Lauren Weinstein
NNSquad Moderator ]